Are there any common household items or products that you think are designed incredibly poorly?
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This is so you can put them up on your sholder. Well some that arnt jank.
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Thanks for those! Clear as day.
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The keyboard I'm currently using has an F-key that's tied to a lock screen. I accidentally hit it several times a day, and end up having to put in the passcode to unlock the computer every time.
I wish I could disable that stupid key. I'm tempted to pop it right out. But I use a shared computer, so I'm limited in options here.
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I knew about different bowl / seat shapes, but I never thought about the issues for folks who have a penis.
Very enlightening. Thank you for bringing it up! It's very interesting.
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How hard are you pulling out towels that there's a risk of getting caught up in it ?
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Stainless steel ones are the way to go
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Don't they fit in a draw?
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Thankfully, there are some designs that improve on this! Here’s what’s in my kitchen:
The brand is OXO.
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To be fair, most are. At the end of the day, today's economy makes it far more profitable to choose either extremely cheap or extremely expensive, making good, lasting, but not perfect products is just not what consumers seem to want. People eother want something cheap that works okay, or something really well made that justifies the price.
I feel like 99% of products I interact with get me frustrated with their simple-to-fix design flaws.
But as for your question: fucking toothpaste containers! Could you make a more frustrating and intentionally bad design?? Why is it that if I cut them open I can get like another few days to a week of brushing? Why not put tooth paste in a jar with a little spoon? Or an opening that is small so that the amount that is left after squeezing your best, is truly insignificant? Why. Must. I. Suffer?
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Hangers with those hooks on the sides that I guess are meant to slip the collar of the shirts into? They don't really serve as a good use plus they seem to get tangled with other hangers at times and hang securely anyways. I've seen better hangers at work where there is a strip of some rubber compound on the top sides of each hanger, they hold things much better and I feel that's the more better of the design for a hanger.
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No one asked for the spork
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The only thing more poorly designed than a regular keyboard is a keyboard where they try to cram extra functions into the same number of keys with a FN key. Every brand does it differently, no consistency even within the same brand sometimes.
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I'll mention you can get detergent sheets and they work fine. No more messing with powders of liquids for me.
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I really like these too, I bought like a multi years supply of them and they fit in a pocket I hang on my laundry door and haven't fucked with liquid detergent or bottles since 2022
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Sure, but my fridge is pretty much right beside the stove so it works out nicely for me.
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In my parent home there's a octagonal toilet badly shaped so is uncomfortable to seat parallel(the same way you seat in a oval one) because the seat is too long and is uncomfortable to seat crossing the seat because is too narrow, you need to seat diagonally but because is octagonal your dick hits the bowl. Extremely annoying design.
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Some of them are outright ridiculous. Like one of the protein cookie brands I like, 80% of the time I have to hulk out and end up ripping the packaging to shreds. We also see it on chip packages and cereal bags at times too. It's crazy.
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Reusable water bottles, especially their lids. They build up microorganisms faster than a petri dish and the more complex the bottles are, the worse it is.
Worst offender are the ones with integrated straws. Sure, they look nice and are a good idea, but cleaning them thoroughly is a nightmare. Also, I don't know how people tolerate the ones with exposed straws or mouthpieces. Isn't that incredibly unsanitary?
More generally, why doesn't anyone except for Nalgene make reusable bottles without rubber gaskets? Gaskets get stinky, then you have to peel them out, scrub like mad, and then awkwardly stretch them back in. I've been looking for a metal water bottle without a gasket for ages. They literally just need to shove the Nalgene-type screw-on top into a metal body.
Bonus points if someone designs a gasket-less bottle that opens in the middle so I don't have to fiddle with a bottle brush every time I wash it.
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Just don't use ordinary shrink tubing, it doesn't seal properly in the front and may tighten too hard for comfort
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They come in handy when air drying heavy, damp shirts
